Unkind to the Rich? The Public Doesn’t Buy the Excuses for Some of China’s Wealthy in Disaster Relief! - A Comment from the Grassroots' Blog

by benjychu on 2008-05-21 22:29:49

Mainland tycoons, especially the real estate tycoons who occupied half of the top ten richest people were accused of being "half-beat slow" in this disaster relief and being "too stingy". The comments such as donating 2.2 million yuan, "employee donations are limited to 10 yuan", and "corporate donation activities should not become a burden" made Vanke (a real estate company) and its chairman Wang Shi suffer from netizen's criticism.

At the same time, we must see that the imperfect charity system in mainland China is also one of the reasons. Agencies which dominated the fundraising in this earthquake all have strong official nature, and many people doubted about the destination of these charitable funds. Under the current situation, establishing charity institutions led by civilians and social forces to activate the enthusiasm of enterprises and the public for charity!